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I did not try starting mine at -11F, but they start fine at 0F. You can start them without an ether bottle, just spray ether into air intake above the cab.
Do not be a chicken. If your truck gets in an accident and it is your driver's fault, you will get sued into oblivion regardless of overload issue.
That said, I personally would not put more than 10 tons of weight on it.
I have been thinking. An M923A2 is a cool truck, but not very useful commercially. And then I realized that it could be great for snow plowing. It is a heavy duty truck, starts easily in the cold, has six wheel drive, CTIS, etc. All an M923A2 would need for plowing is a hydraulic unit, nd M925A2...
I would like to start this thread to discuss cold weather starting of NHC250 and CTA8.3.
I have trucks with both. Tried starting them at 25F.
The batteries were fine.
I had to use ether assist. The NHC250 started with difficulty, after maybe a minute of cranking, whereas the CTA8.3 started...
Here's something that I learned in life. If a valuable thing is ridiculously cheap, you should buy it right now, and not wait until it might be even cheaper. It may or may not become even cheaper, but it does not matter very much. A good purchase will pay for itself in any case.
In our case...
I do not understand what you are saying. To a scrapper, copper harnesses are worth around $1.40 per lb. If they are so valuable to you, why can't you pay more than that for them? If they can be sold for usable, why don't you bid more than scrap value?
I had a similar problem. It was caused by the expello valve stuck in the air dryer and the aair from the compressor was coming out of that valve. By advice of a member here, I pushed the valve up and it fixed it.
If you think that 5 tonners will be cheaper, keep this in mind: a 5 ton truck weighs about 21,000lbs. Current scrap prices are 290-300 dollars per ton. This gives a scrap value of a five tonner around $3,000. There is no reason to think that they will sell for much less than scrap value due to...
Military truck mudding is what people do here in the US for fun. In Russia, they do it for a living because their roads are bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9tnqbwZUJc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byp468qTrZ0
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